
Viktor Vasnetsov1848–1926Si può ammirare?
Mosca, Russia
Il proprietario è noto. Se oggi sia esposta, il museo non lo dice, e a indovinare non ci hanno insegnato.
1919
His son Boris dies
In 1919 his son Boris (1880–1919) died; after the revolution the artist’s family was scattered, which he took hard.
September 1919
Rumours that Vasnetsov has been shot
In September 1919 a Russian émigré newspaper reported that the Bolsheviks had “in all likelihood” killed the artist; the rumour reached Repin at Penaty, who anxiously asked the Soviet artists visiting him whether it was true that Vasnetsov had been shot.
1920
His son Mikhail emigrates on the last steamer
During the Civil War Mikhail taught at the White Army’s flying school in Kiev; in 1920, escaping the Red Army, he sent his wife and son to his father’s house and left on the last steamer sailing from Crimea to Gallipoli — the family knew nothing of his fate until 1922.